Iosif Galanakis

Iosif Galanakis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1973. He received the Physics degree from the University of Athens in 1996. He completed his M.S. degree at the Universite de Rennes I, France in 1997, and, in 2000, he received his Ph.D. degree from the Universite Louis Pasteur de Strasboug, France specialized in materials quantum mechanics. From 2000 to 2002, he was a Research Fellow at the Institut fuer Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany. In 2005, he was elected as a Lecturer at the Department of Materials Science, University of Patras, and, since 2010, he has been appointed an Assistant Professor at the same department in the field of micro- and nanophased materials. He has coauthored more than 60 research articles which have received more than 1700 citations. His research interests focus on the electronic structure calculations of magnetic materials.